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Taiwanese authorities are investigating a Chinese-owned vessel that is suspected of damaging an undersea internet cable, causing limited disruption but raising concerns the incident was deliberate.

Taiwan’s Chungwha Telecom on Sunday received an alert that a fibre-optic cable to the north-east of the island had been disrupted. The cable runs …

A company that has worked closely with the UK government on artificial intelligence safety, the NHS and education is also developing AI for military drones.

The consultancy Faculty AI has “experience developing and deploying AI models on to UAVs”, or unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a defence industry partner company.

In Monday’s

big NHS speech

“This elective reform …

The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has been asked to refer Vodafone to the Covid corruption commissioner, after a legal claim alleged the £18bn telecoms group benefited from government pandemic support intended for small businesses.

The request to examine the conduct of the FTSE 100 company follows last month’s high court …

A group of victims of gender-based violence has criticised Elon Musk for his remarks attacking Jess Phillips, saying the safeguarding minister had “devoted her life to fighting for women and girls”.

In a letter shared with the Guardian the seven women, including three survivors of the

Telford …

In Toxteth, a fast-gentrifying area of Liverpool that has for decades been the nucleus of the city’s 300-year-old black community, Saeed Olayiwola considered how the Labour government compared with the Conservatives. “I don’t see much that sets them apart at the moment,” Olayiwola said.

Since Keir Starmer’s government took power …

Justin Trudeau’s

decision to resign as prime minister

On a frigid Monday morning, Trudeau said that while “every bone in …

• Ukrainian president, Voldymyr Zelenskyy, said that almost 15,000 Russian soldiers had died after five months of fighting in Kursk.

  He also said Ukraine’s forces had created a buffer zone in the Kursk region, preventing Russians from “direct[ing]… force to other directions, particularly to the Donetsk region, Sumy, Kharkiv …

Britain’s largest retailers are warning they could be forced to cut thousands of jobs this year as the industry braces for higher taxes and employment costs after a bleak Christmas shopping season.

In the latest sign of tough trading conditions on the high street, figures from the British Retail Consortium …

The last corners of England and Wales yet to be covered by a £5bn push to widen fast broadband could finally get access to rapid downloads, streaming and video calls after the government announced £289m in new taxpayer-funded contracts enabling coverage.

After some people in broadband blackspots were forced to …